Friday night when the tests were done, tom took us stragglers to see something really cool. well that's the impression I got. :-) He showed us a dark superman angel, which was a little cut up, and rigged so you could use the pressure sensors from the gun dyno on it.
There was one hose tapped into the side of the valve chamber, and then they had a volumizer that also had a fitting on it so you could test the LPR's preformance.
Tom showed use the preformance of the retrovalve. It's everything it's cracked up to be. And then the angel was hooked up and we got to see the graphs of it's preformance..... the angels' reg, even after 10 secconds hadn't fully recovered to it's set pressure.
This I found hard to believe. Very hard to believe. And if you check my seccond post on AO.. You'll see I voiced my oppinon on such matters.
Later that evening, while sitting around the AGd offices. We discussed what that angel had done, and it came up that we'd like to see another angel tested. Saturday night, tom had another 2 angels on hand for testing. We used a slightly less sophisticated setup to test the govinar's recharge time. But the results appeared to be the same on all three angels that were tested. The results were scary. Basicly you can draw the conclusion that the regs that come on angels.. SUCK.
Just to make sure the whole industry wasn't lame, we hualled in my cocker with it's palmers stabilizer on it. And put the stab on the angel to see what it would do. the LPR on the angel was still a very very poor preformer. but the recharge time on the valve chamber was very much better. We then tested it on my cocker, and got the same results.
We currently have data on 4 regs at the moment. the Govinair, palmers stabilizer, the automag's reg, and the RT's reg. We didn't see data on the automag's reg that night, but we did see that from the govinair, stab, and rt..
The Stab recharged most of the way in .044 secconds.. fast enough that we saw a funny spike in the recharge. We aren't sure where that came from, but it could be air heating, or it could be some other part of the regs design. either way the stab recharged VERY quickly.
We saw the rt. which instead of the normal recharge curve, you see a near vertical line untill the reg charges up to full pressure. and then you see it drop off a little as the air cools.
And we saw the govinair, which took amazingly long to recharge to the same level as the stab. If tom still has that reg around, I'd like to know how long it actually took for it to get to within 20psi of fully recharged.
Given the results from this informal testing.. I'd love to see a RT based inline reg...
There was one hose tapped into the side of the valve chamber, and then they had a volumizer that also had a fitting on it so you could test the LPR's preformance.
Tom showed use the preformance of the retrovalve. It's everything it's cracked up to be. And then the angel was hooked up and we got to see the graphs of it's preformance..... the angels' reg, even after 10 secconds hadn't fully recovered to it's set pressure.
This I found hard to believe. Very hard to believe. And if you check my seccond post on AO.. You'll see I voiced my oppinon on such matters.
Later that evening, while sitting around the AGd offices. We discussed what that angel had done, and it came up that we'd like to see another angel tested. Saturday night, tom had another 2 angels on hand for testing. We used a slightly less sophisticated setup to test the govinar's recharge time. But the results appeared to be the same on all three angels that were tested. The results were scary. Basicly you can draw the conclusion that the regs that come on angels.. SUCK.
Just to make sure the whole industry wasn't lame, we hualled in my cocker with it's palmers stabilizer on it. And put the stab on the angel to see what it would do. the LPR on the angel was still a very very poor preformer. but the recharge time on the valve chamber was very much better. We then tested it on my cocker, and got the same results.
We currently have data on 4 regs at the moment. the Govinair, palmers stabilizer, the automag's reg, and the RT's reg. We didn't see data on the automag's reg that night, but we did see that from the govinair, stab, and rt..
The Stab recharged most of the way in .044 secconds.. fast enough that we saw a funny spike in the recharge. We aren't sure where that came from, but it could be air heating, or it could be some other part of the regs design. either way the stab recharged VERY quickly.
We saw the rt. which instead of the normal recharge curve, you see a near vertical line untill the reg charges up to full pressure. and then you see it drop off a little as the air cools.
And we saw the govinair, which took amazingly long to recharge to the same level as the stab. If tom still has that reg around, I'd like to know how long it actually took for it to get to within 20psi of fully recharged.
Given the results from this informal testing.. I'd love to see a RT based inline reg...
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